Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project will provide technical assistance to improve Georgia’s juvenile justice system at the request of state leaders.
As we’ve done in other states, Pew, along with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other partners, will collaborate with a bipartisan inter-branch working group to:
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diagnose the factors driving the system’s growth and cost;
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assess the extent to which the system is using evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism; and
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facilitate consensus on a set of fiscally-sound, data-driven policy options.
Read the coverage of the first working group meeting in the Augusta Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The governor’s Executive Order (PDF) calls on the working group to issue a report in December that recommends a comprehensive set of reforms to improve juvenile corrections outcomes.
Pew also is undertaking new national research on the juvenile justice system. Our team is developing a 50-state report on juvenile corrections populations and costs that will provide up-to-date, state-by-state information on how and where states are spending their juvenile justice dollars. Please sign up to our e-list to get the report when it is released and stay abreast of other project developments.
Growing numbers of state policy makers are realizing that research-based policies and programs can make their juvenile and criminal justice systems work better and cost less. We look forward to continuing to work with you to help states improve public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control corrections costs.
RESOURCES: Click here for more information on the Public Safety Performance Project, http://www.pewstates.org/projects/public-safety-performance-project-328068.
